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Habit : | Trees up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark blackish, exfoliating; blaze cream. |
Branches and Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petioles 1-3 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 11.5 x 6.5 cm, ovate, apex shortly caudate-acuminate, base acute, glabrous, shining, domatia at the axils of secondary_nerves beneath; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 4-5 pairs; tertiary_nerves obliquely_percurrent. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence in axillary or terminal panicles, 7.5-10 cm long; flowers yellowish-white with pink tinge. |
Fruit and Seed : | Nut, with accrescent_calyx; seed 1. |